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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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Non-Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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Plot and melodrama were in every life in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
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It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
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if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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the only revenge worth having is success.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
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The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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Success is a great healer.
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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
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orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
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